Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stupid person; a nitwit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun colloq. A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative A
dunce ,mentally dull orstupid person. - noun pejorative A label for a person who refuses to
learn or grow mentally. - noun A traditional name for a
fool who serves as thebutt of jokes about stupidity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I looked up 'numskull' and it is an accepted spelling.
Cake Writing 201: "Congratulations" Jen 2008
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But if "numskull" is an imprecise description of the president, it is not altogether inaccurate.
Hullabaloo 2004
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But if "numskull" is an imprecise description of the president, it is not altogether inaccurate.
Hullabaloo 2004
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Not many young girls are going to relate to the large busted tiny waists and big sultry eyes of the princesses while being an undeveloped and confused child. while the guy who made this is a numskull and hasn't learned about photoshop yet its a valid point that LITTLE GIRLS (not you or I) are taking bad values away from those movies. alesia
Sociological Deconstruction of the Disney Princesses » E-Mail 2009
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To sum up, only a numskull would claim Stadium 8 Movies owed me a refund if I decided to dink around at the park instead of showing up at the contracted time and place and watching the movie they played.
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What this country needs by a way of a president is a numskull like you.
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The author cannot say: This is actually a brilliantly written passage and you, the reader, are just too much of a numskull to understand.
The Writing Team Joel Achenbach 2011
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Not many young girls are going to relate to the large busted tiny waists and big sultry eyes of the princesses while being an undeveloped and confused child. while the guy who made this is a numskull and hasn't learned about photoshop yet its a valid point that LITTLE GIRLS (not you or I) are taking bad values away from those movies. alesia
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To sum up, only a numskull would claim Stadium 8 Movies owed me a refund if I decided to dink around at the park instead of showing up at the contracted time and place and watching the movie they played.
John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February 2010
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To sum up, only a numskull would claim Stadium 8 Movies owed me a refund if I decided to dink around at the park instead of showing up at the contracted time and place and watching the movie they played.
John Brown – the author’s official site » 2010 » February » 10 2010
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